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Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

  • From: Michael Lucking
  • Date: Fri Mar 21 17:56:51 2003

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I have a Dell C400 that has a 9 pin serial.

In the past I have had laptops without serial. Using a USB dongle sucked, in 
fact some laptops did not provide enough power on the USB port while on 
battery power to make the USB dongle function. Further the USB dongle is yet 
another hunk of crap to carry around, and having had to work in cramped 
spaces, I found the dongle to be too much to deal with at times. For laptops 
without Serial ports, I have used the "Silicom PCMCIA RS-232 serial port 
Card" (http://www.silicom.co.il/srs.htm). I still keep one so I have have two 
serial ports on my current laptop. 




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